Literary usage of Grubworms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)"In that Science, what, in common language, are termed Maggots, Caterpillars,
grubworms, &c. (according to our usual distinctions,) have the general name of ..."

2.The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1904)"... than those grubworms. "We answered not the guns of the stranger, paying no
more heed to them than to the barking of a sea-dog. " While below our gunners ..."

3.Appletons' Popular Science Monthly by William Jay Youmans (1896)"... phylloxera, the woolly aphis, vine pyralis, grasshoppers, grubworms, and
silkworms. Most attention is given to the phylloxera. m MR. ..."

4.The Herald's History of Los Angeles City by Charles Dwight Willard (1901)"caught fish. The flesh was eaten raw, or nearly so. Grasshoppers and even grubworms
were devoured in dry years. The Indian man looked upon himself as a ..."